LeifXayn
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3 years ago Hi @LongJohn-Silver many thanks for you nice comment! It's certainly interesting for us in the long run but for this really all parts need to be OS but the issue is that some parts are not, since we also build a for business version. So right now all is free but not all is open. However, we always consider this and at some point this might be the case 👍
First of all, thank you for your awesome application and for making part of it libre, it is really awesome to see this kind of project follows these principles.
Following the spirit of conquering more individual and collective privacy in the virtual realm, it would fantastic if you could give some other form of installing the application for people who don't want to rely on Google's store, but also want to keep up to date and enjoy your fantastic project. Right now the only way of doing so is by using Aurora Store, which is a third party client to the aforementioned application, and even though it is not that bad, it would be even better if you wouldn't need to depend on them.
The best option would be to publish it on F-Droid, which is the most well known and has high standards for publication, but at the same time these high standards come with compromises since it requires to not use proprietary software. I don't know exactly how Xayn is constructed or what it has or hasn't but it would be interesting to at least discuss the possibility of liberating what's not libre.
https://f-droid.org/ https://forum.f-droid.org/t/how-to-publish-my-app-on-f-droid/198
Another good option which is less strict would be to publish it on Izzy on Droid, which is also a privacy and libre software oriented repository, but it is less strict than F-Droid.
https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/